Conservative, Royalist Manager media network published the first government announcement of further Internet censorship since July.

Buried in Manager’s propaganda, we learn that the new Army commander has signed a memorandum of understanding with the ICT minister and the ministers of justice and culture. The MOU specifies 43,000 new websites to be blocked immediately and 3,000 pending for lèse majesté content.

Thai Rath, April 15: 190 websites, and a further 500 per day, to October 29: 99,500

Prachatai, May 9: 50,000 websites

Thai ISP blocking: 15,000 websites

CRES, May 14: 770 websites

CRES: May 21: 1,150 websites

MICT, June 17: 43,000, plus 3,000 planned

Thai government has no plan to lift the state of emergency but they seem to be blocking as fast as they can in case the situation reverts to ‘normal’ and they must once again seek court orders for blocking under the Computer Crimes Act 2007.